Re:New ammonia production process: generates electricity ins...
by msandford on Monday February 06, 2017 @10:23AM
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I mean, sure, you can do that. But it's kind of silly. "Grow" ammonia feedstock on farms to then turn into fertilizer to use at the farm to grow food?
Maybe you should just plant legumes instead and let them fix the nitrogen straight into the soil where you want to grow food. It's not sexy since it's 19th century technology (or older) but it works. And it requires very little in the way of logistics or infrastructure meaning that it's resilient.
Re:New ammonia production process: generates electricity ins...
by VLM on Monday February 06, 2017 @01:00PM
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Oh you city slickers... This has been a thing for centuries and it works pretty well. Getting big industry in the middle of the process would be new but the process is old.
Maybe you should just plant legumes instead and let them fix the nitrogen straight into the soil where you want to grow food. It's not sexy since it's 19th century technology (or older) but it works. And it requires very little in the way of logistics or infrastructure meaning that it's resilient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation